<p>Jacdad’s post is an ideal response to Aerobug, and since I have never been to Rice, but am a Wesleyan alum whose son is a current sophomore, let me comment on a few questions that you raised. First, my son has NO pressure to drink or use drugs, and he is in a very steady, monogamous relationship with a young woman he met there last year. Regarding “closed-minded, liberal individuals”, well, my son is a liberal politically, but one of his best friends there is a conservative Republican. While Wesleyan gives students a lot of freedom, the other side of that is that freedom extends to everybody, including the substance free and politically agnostic students. I have written at length on another thread about the wonderful, fairly unique intellectual atmosphere at Wesleyan, which is partly the result of innovative major programs like the College of Letters and College of Social Studies, as well as the incredible array of lecturers who come to campus and the unusual variety of art and music exhibitions there. Finally, while Wesleyan no longer has residential colleges, they do have a wide variety of Program Houses that you could choose:</p>
<p>[Program</a> Housing - Wesleyan University](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/reslife/ugrad_housing/programhousing.html]Program”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/reslife/ugrad_housing/programhousing.html)</p>